Immune response of the caribbean sea fan, gorgonia ventalina, exposed to an aplanochytrium parasite as revealed by transcriptome sequencing

Frontiers in Physiology

Volumn 4 JUL, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Burge, Colleen A ^a   Mouchka, Morgan E ^a   Harvell, C Drew ^a   Roberts, Steven ^b  

^a Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Gorgonia ventalina; Immune response; RNA Seq; Sea fan; Soft coral; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; PATTERN RECOGNITION RECEPTOR; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE (UBIQUINONE);

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APLANOCHYTRIUM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GORDONIA; GORGONIA VENTALINA; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; INNATE IMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PATHOGENESIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; UPREGULATION; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84884579720     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664042X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2013.00180     Document Type: Article

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